Philippe Clement was glad to watch Rangers extend their winning run - but the Light Blues boss just wasn't having the penalty that Hibernian were awarded during the 1-0 victory.
Jack Butland saved Mykola Kuharevich's first half penalty, which was awarded after VAR advised referee Nick Walsh that John Souttar to have handled the ball inside the box.
But Clement has witnessed similar incidents go unpunished over the past few weeks and questioned the officials' thinking this time around.
"My question is 'why is that a penalty?'," an animated Rangers manager asked during his post-match interview.
"You have a player who puts his leg up to go to the ball, so he's wide. At that moment, he sees the other player make contact, so he makes himself smaller to put his arm in front of him. And then the ball touches him, and his arm goes up.
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"In that short distance, I've seen this situation in the last couple of weeks, where people have had their arm out of their body, and there was no penalty. It was discussed before the season not to give those easy penalties from short distance in those moments. For me, it's not a penalty."
"The performance was not incredible, but that's difficult playing that early after a European game away," he confessed.
"The recovery time was much less. Some leagues look at giving teams more recovery time. I saw less freshness in the players than I have in the last couple of weeks. That's normal."
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Hibernian boss David Gray provided his take on the 90 minutes, and said: "I'll never accept losing games of football, but if there is a way to lose, it's probably that.
"The players put absolutely everything into that. I can't fault it at all. The gameplan was good, the chances we created were good ones. The least we deserved was a point.
"The boys are gutted because they've put so much in, but there's a lot of positives to take, so there's very mixed emotions.
"I thought we were going to get the goal and, if we got one, I think we would've gone on to win the game."
